TMW and Time Evaluation....

[Former Member]

Hello, experts,

Have a question regarding the association between TMW and Time Evaluation.....does TE work only based on TMW ? That is the time data must be recorded in TMW to be evaluated by RPTIME00?  As my time data directly maintained in infotypes is not picked while it is picked via TMW....

Kindly help....

Thanks,

Santoshini.

[harishtk1 · Accepted solution]

Time Managers Workplace is merely an interface to maintain Time Data in the system.

It is not a prerequisite, but SAP thinks it is a user friendly method which Managers or Time Admins can use to quickly maintain Time Data.

Time Evaluation evaluates infotypes or clock ins directly and hence it does not matter if the data has been entered by TMW or any other mechanism.

Hope this helps.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

yes, I totally agree with you.  I tried maintaining data without TMW but the system is not registering the data and is throwing an error that 'Employee is not at work' when I run TE....when I maintain the same data through TMW, it is accepting and I could execute TE without any error.....Perhaps, TMW is essential atleast for processing messages issued by TE .

Thanks,

Santoshini.

[harishtk1 · Accepted solution]

HI Santoshini,

As Siddharth Rajora who is SAP Time Management expert has also confirmed, we can safely ignore the coincidence of your system processing only when data is entered through Time Managers Workplace. That is not a factor.

Can you please let us know exactly what kind of data you are entering through TMW and what data are you entering through PA30 - Is it exactly the same? Which schema are you using? Ae you working witht he standard samples or have you customised your schema and/or TMW. Are you entering clock times or attendances?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

hello, Siddharth and Harish,

thank you for your inputs. May be it is just a coincidence as Harish put it. Yes, Harish, I was using the standard schema TM04 and used attendances via TMW as well as tried maintaining attendances for a different employee using PA70.....TE could be run for employee for whom attendances were entered using TMW. But, for the other employee whose attendance was maintained through PA70, TE threw an error, 'employee not at work'.....

Thanks,

Santoshini.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

hello, friends,

Cud anybody tell me how to close this topic for discussion....am not knowing how....

thanks,

santoshini.

[harishtk1 · Accepted solution]

It could be something very simple - for example you have set Time Management Status = 1 for the employee whose data you are entering with PA70, and it is possible although you entered some data, system has processsed a day for which he has planned hrs>0, but you have not entered any attendance for him on that day.

While for the other employee you have maintained attendance for all days for which he was supposed to work - or you have set Time Management Status that only planned times are evaluated.

In any case, a review of the part of the log where the error message is generated, particularly by double clicking on "Processing" and seeing what the system is doing will help to understand the cause much better.

Hope this helps.

[harishtk1 · Accepted solution]

Well, if you don't want to assign points to anybody, you could just mark one of your own posts in this thread as "Correct Answer" - thereby closing the thread.

As far as I know - Selecting one of the responses as a Correct ANswer closes the thread.

I have also seen some posts being marked as "Assumed Answered" or "Not Answered", but I do not know where those choices are available.

Hope this helps

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello, Harish,

Thank you for the info....TE is workin well with TMW for now.....I think that shud be fine....

Regards,

Santoshini

[siddharthrajora]

TMS is just a means to records times, you can directly record times in 2001/2002 or bring it from CATS or bapis to infotype tables,ess etc Rptime00 just needs these data to run, and you dont need TMW for this to maintain data, its basically meant for time admin , he can of course use CAT2 to input times

There are many ways for time to be uploaded, but none of them necessary it depends upon your requirement which interface to be used to record times!

[former_member184702]

Hi Santoshini,

Time Data and Message Processing, are included in the standard SAP System. Time administrators can easily toggle between the two scenarios (when assigned to them) to complete their daily tasks, without leaving the application.

I am not sure about TE work only based on TMW, but without running the TE (updates the quotas) how you check the quotas and absences.

Regards

Siva

[Former Member]

Hi, Siva,

Thank you for your comments. But my basic query is can we work on TE without TMW wherein I maintain my data directly in infotypes....?

Regards,

Santoshini.

[former_member184702]

I am not sure abt but Time Manager's Workplace(TMW) is a separte bench ,

yes, you can work on time eval without TMW .

Thanks

Siva